Aligning Business Strategies and Analytics (Advances in Analytics and Data Science, #1)
This book examines issues related to the alignment of business strategies and analytics. Vast amounts of data are being generated, collected, stored, processed, analyzed, distributed and used at an ever-increasing rate by organizations. Simultaneously, managers must rapidly and thoroughly understand the factors driving their business. Business Analytics is an interactive process of analyzing and exploring enterprise data to find valuable insights that can be exploited for competitive advantage....
Eleven scientists and artists answer the question, how can "complexity" be utilized to find the common ground between their two so very different worlds?. Since the beginnings of the scientific mode of thinking in the 16th century, science and art have appeared as polar opposites: science with its cold logic and art with its transcendent beauty. Yet both scientists and artists are seekers after truth. In the spring of 1998, a small group of scientists and artists joined veteran scientist-author...
Technology is pervasive in today's globalized world. Moreover, technology and globalization drive competitiveness and strategy, and must be managed well. This textbook uses technology management as the central theme to cover multiple business and social facets, including digital transformation, cybersecurity, international operations, marketing, finance, culture, human capital, and the political economy. The book is divided into four sections. Part 1 examines the confluence of globalization a...
A practical and fast-paced guide that gives you all the information you need to simplify and streamline virtual desktops so you get a production-quality solution while instantly lowering your costs and improving security. Getting Started with Citrix VDI-in-a-Box is great for IT professionals who are new to VDI-in-a-Box and who are looking for a good grounding in the product. You may be planning to research VDI-in-a-Box in more detail, or you may be tasked with researching how VDI-in-a-Box could...
Salesforce.com Customization Handbook
by Rakesh Gupta and Sagar Pareek
If you want to use Salesforce CRM to automate your business requirements, or you have already adopted Salesforce CRM and want to streamline the sales process, this book is for you. Whether you are new to Salesforce or a seasoned expert, you will be able to master the basic functions as well as the advanced features of Salesforce.com. No previous experience in computer coding or programming is required.
A step-by-step guide for planning and carrying out your Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 implementation. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of setup screens and practical examples and advice are included for the Dynamics GP system and core modules. If you are a new or existing Microsoft Dynamics GP consultant or an end user who wants to implement, install, and set up core modules of Dynamics GP 2013, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of business management systems and either Dynami...
Building Chatbots with Microsoft Bot Framework and Node.Js
by G Akshay Kulkarni
Using Open Source Platforms for Business Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series on Business Intelligence)
by Lyndsay Wise
Open Source BI solutions have many advantages over traditional proprietary software, from offering lower initial costs to more flexible support and integration options; but, until now, there has been no comprehensive guide to the complete offerings of the OS BI market. Writing for IT managers and business analysts without bias toward any BI suite, industry insider Lyndsay Wise covers the benefits and challenges of all available open source BI systems and tools, enabling readers to identify the s...
As there is a vast amount of information to consider when offering quality services, organisations have developed techniques for identifying risk factors to be taken into consideration when constructing effective business strategies. Developing Business Strategies and Identifying Risk Factors in Modern Organizations presents new methodologies currently being utilised to formulate and solve strategic issues in order to escape the jeopardy of possible business risks. By highlighting a multitude...
Microsoft Office 2010, Volume 1 (Exploring)
by Robert Grauer, Mary Anne S Poatsy, Michelle Hulett, Cynthia Krebs, Keith Mast, and Keith Mulbery
Understanding GIS (Understanding Gis, #4)
by Christian Harder, Tim Ormsby, and Thomas Balstrom
Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Project Workbook explains the methods and tools needed to apply GIS analysis to a spatial problem by finding the best location for a new park along the Los Angeles River in Southern California. Through this process, readers develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills and learn to use ArcGIS (R) 10.1 for Desktop software from Esri (R). Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Project Workbook includes valuable learning materials:Self-paced tutorials. The project is car...
Climate change mechanisms, impacts, risks, mitigation, adaption, and governance are widely recognized as the biggest, most interconnected problem facing humanity. Big Data Mining for Climate Change addresses one of the fundamental issues facing scientists of climate or the environment: how to manage the vast amount of information available and analyse it. The resulting integrated and interdisciplinary big data mining approaches are emerging, partially with the help of the United Nation’s big dat...
Psychological emotional intelligence and self-esteem in adolescent boys and girls
by Singh Dheerja
Shortcut Key Cards are valuable laminated reference cards illustrating the shortcut keys for a particular Office Application, intended for students to use during and after their course. These are a great supplement to an Office 2010 or Computer Concepts book. Brief, colorful, and highly illustrated laminated cards that show students how to use the shortcut keys in each of the Office 2010 Applications.
Big Data, Big Analytics (Wiley CIO)
by Michael Minelli, Michele Chambers, and Ambiga Dhiraj
Unique prospective on the big data analytics phenomenon for both business and IT professionals The availability of Big Data, low-cost commodity hardware and new information management and analytics software has produced a unique moment in the history of business. The convergence of these trends means that we have the capabilities required to analyze astonishing data sets quickly and cost-effectively for the first time in history. These capabilities are neither theoretical nor trivial. They repre...
Web Based Enterprise Energy and Building Automation Systems
by Barney L. Capehart and Lynne C. Capehart
The capability and use of IT and web based energy information and control systems has expanded from single facilities to multiple facilities and organizations with buildings located throughout the world. This book answers the question of how to take the mass of available data and extract from it simple and useful information which can determine what actions to take to improve efficiency and productivity of commercial, institutional and industrial facilities. The book also provides insight into t...
Corporate and commercial software-development teams all want solutions for one important problem-how to get their high-pressure development schedules under control. In RAPID DEVELOPMENT, author Steve McConnell addresses that concern head-on with overall strategies, specific best practices, and valuable tips that help shrink and control development schedules and keep projects moving. Inside, you'll find: A rapid-development strategy that can be applied to any project and the best practices to ma...
ICTs in Developing Countries
ICTs in Developing Countries is a collection of conceptual and empirical works on the adoption and impacts of ICT use in developing societies. Bringing together a wide range of disciplines and contributors, it offers a rich examination of digital divide and ICT for development both in terms of contextual information and disciplinary perspectives.